Douglas, Lord Alfred

Lord Alfred Douglas
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Name	Douglas, Lord Alfred Gender: M
Birthname	Alfred Bruce Douglas
born on	22 October 1870 at 19:42 (= 7:42 PM )
Place	Worcester, England, 52n11, 2w13
Timezone	GMT h0e (is standard time)
Data source	From memory Rodden Rating A Collector: Rodden
Astrology data	29°13' 03°23 Asc. 28°26'

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Lord Alfred Douglas

Biography

British member of the peerage, an essayist, poet, satirist and autobiographer. He was the author of "My Friendship with Oscar Wilde," 1914 and "Oscar Wilde, A Summing Up," 1940.

Lord Alfred was bisexual and a dandy, the notorious lover of Oscar Wilde in 1891, when he was age 21 and Wilde was age 37. His dad, with whom he had a bitter enmity, started legal action. Wilde went to trial and was convicted of the crime of homosexuality, and was sent to prison in 1895 a broken man.

Following Wilde's release (19 May 1897), the two reunited in August at Rouen, France, but stayed together only a few months owing to personal differences and the various pressures on them.

After Wilde's death in 1900, Douglas established a close friendship with Olive Eleanor Custance, an heiress and poet. They married on 4 March 1902 and had one son, Raymond Wilfred Sholto Douglas, born on 17 November 1902. Their marriage was all but over by the end of the 1920s, although they never divorced.

Douglas died of congestive heart failure on 20 March 1945, in Lancing, West Sussex, England.

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Relationships

• friend relationship with Boulestin, Marcel (born 14 April 1877)

• lover relationship with Wilde, Oscar (born 16 October 1854)

• role played of/by Fraser, John (born 18 March 1931). Notes: 1960 film "The Trials of Oscar Wilde"

• role played of/by Law, Jude (born 29 December 1972). Notes: 1997 film "Wilde"

Events

• Relationship : Begin significant relationship November 1891 (Affair with Oscar Wilde)
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• Death by Disease 20 March 1945 in Lancing (Congestive heart failure, age 74)
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Source Notes

Fagan in AA, 2/1967 quotes data from him to Hove, "Mother said 7:30 to 8:00 PM, closer to 8:00"

Sy Scholfield quotes birth notice (no time given): "On the 22nd Oct., at Ham Hill, Worcester, the Marchioness of QUEENSBERRY, of a son." (Times, 26 Oct. 1870, p. 1).

Categories

• Family : Relationship : Mate - Same sex (Oscar Wilde)

• Passions : Sexuality : Bi-Sexual

• Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer

• Vocation : Writers : Magazine/ newsletter

• Vocation : Writers : Poet

• Notable : Book Collection : American Book